I would suspect that either you did a typo and actually typed:
java HelloWorld.java
or that your javac is linked to java by mistake. Good Luck!
-Steve
At 03:56 PM 5/23/98 +0200, Daniele Lugli wrote:
>I recently downloaded jdk1.1.5v7 and untarred it into /usr/jdk1.1.5.
>My CLASSPATH is .:/usr/jdk1.1.5/lib/classes.zip. JAVA_HOME is
>/usr/jdk1.1.5, the same as JDK_HOME.
>Then I wrote a wonderful HelloWorld.java (I won't explain you what it is
>doing) and tried
>
>javac HelloWorld.java
>
>getting:
>
>...
>Failed to open object 'HelloWorld/java'
>
>Yes, with a slash instead of the dot. Why?
>I am using Red Hat 5.0 and my shell is bash.
>
>Thank you in advance for any help and best regards.
>
>Daniele Lugli
>
>
>
